Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1909 — Widow of Former Well Known Minister Dies. [ARTICLE]

Widow of Former Well Known Minister Dies.

News has been received of the death of Mrs. J. H. Cissel, widow of the late Rev. Cissel, formerly of Lafayette, which occurred Sunday afternoon at her home in Laporte, after a short illness with pneumonia. A week >go Mrs. Cissel’s aged father, Mr. White, died at Laporte. On Saturday night George Rogers, her brother, died near Laporte, making three deaths in a few days. Mrs. George Rogers and Mrs. White, mother of Mrs. Cissel, are both seriously ill and not expected to live. A strange fatality seems to be pursuing- the family. Rev. Cissel difed several years ago at Laporte, leaving a widow and two sons, besides a son by a former marriage, Lewis W. Cissel, who is now* residing at Rodonno Beach, Cal. Rev. Cissel was one of Indiana’s best known Methodist ministers, and with his family resided in Lafayette for many years, being in charge at one time of the Ninth Street M. E. church. He was also presiding elder for years.